Social Skills Unscripted
All about how and why I went from being a go-to social skills expert to not teaching social skills at all! Now I teach social groups focusing on teaching our kids the things that REALLY matter when it comes to making friends, and I’m on a mission to help others do the same!
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This episode is all about what I call the STARFISH scale. STARFISH is an acronym, even though it didn’t start out that way.
In last week’s episode I told the Starfish story about the girl on the beach, and that’s how I came up with the name Starfish Social Club. I LOVE patterns...
(You can listen to this on our podcast HERE or watch it on YouTube HERE.)
Does your child struggle with time management? Do they get overwhelmed when things need to get done? Do they spend more time resisting or refusing than actually doing the thing? Do they have a reputation for...
(You can listen to this on our podcast HERE or watch it on YouTube HERE.)
What happens when we teach neurodivergent kids social rules?
They are likely to become the kids who either get ignored by other kids, or who have a reputation for being annoying. Why is that?...
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Does your kiddo refuse to apologize for things, even when there is evidence of the crime? Or do they apologize for everything?? Why is the concept of apologizing difficult for autistic and ADHD kids? I'm going to...
It’s interesting how much things can change in a matter of days. (Hello, March 2020!)
On Thursday I got this voice in my brain telling me I needed to write a blog post. It caught me off guard because I haven’t written a blog post in a year and a half. Life got busy, plus I...
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